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Best Practices for Multi-Page Form [closed]
I am currently building an eight page form (in WP) that will have well over 100 input fields. I know there are WP plugins for forms - I already tried them and didn't like them. Their UI's became ...
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Is it possible to license Wordpress/Drupal plugin/module under GPL terms when plugin/module relies upon interaction with my server [closed]
I'm developing WordPress Plugin that I would like to distribute through WordPress/Plugin market. As far as I understood, every plugin in WordPress plugin directory site needs to be GPL compatible and ...
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annoying “yo-yo”effect on sidebar [closed]
my sidebar at
http://ntm.at/r0sa is doing annoying yoyo-effects, you can see it especially when you click on "projects"...
has anyone an idea or firebug and can help me how to make the sidebar slower ...
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How can I give my client “full access” to their PHP application's MySQL database?
I am building a PHP application for a client and I'm seriously considering WordPress or a simple framework that will allow me to quickly build out features like forums, etc.
However, the client is ...
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Is Wordpress more appropriate than Magento/Opencart for site like this? [closed]
The premise of the site is that a user pays a small fee to advertise an item that they want to sell. Therefore the user is responsible for adding the "products", not the administrator. The product ...
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Storing and analyzing rock climbing difficulty
I'm working on a WordPress plugin to manage rock climbing data, and I need to think of a way to store rock climbing grades from all of the different systems in a unified way. There are many different ...
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Massive Affiliate Shopping Platform. Is WordPress really suitable? [closed]
I am working on an online shopping platform that acquires it's data from various affiliate programs through XML files. I am talking hundreds and thousands of items per program here that change often ...
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CTO has left — codebase is a huge kludge, any advice on how to manage/handle/damage control? [closed]
I began work at a company 2 months ago as a PHP developer. I stepped in to somewhat of a kludge, but I've yet to find a company that isn't... The development stable is currently two developers ...
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How Can I Improve my Workflow?
So I design and develop websites myself, mostly in WordPress. Once I'm happy with the site on my local server, I upload it and its database to the web server and let the client make whatever changes ...
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Who is a CMS really for?
I have started lately discovering Content Management Systems, and I was wondering, who is really CMS for?
What I mean by that: is it only for companies, small businesses or individuals, that pays a ...
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When writing tests for a Wordpress plugin, should i run them inside wordpress or in a normal browser?
I have started using BDD for a wordpress plugin i'm working on and i'm rewriting the js codebase to do tests. I've encountered a few problems but i'm going steady now, i was wondering if i had the ...
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Is there a decent way to maintain development of wordpress sites using the same base?
We've been churning out wordpress sites for a while, and we'd like to keep a base repository that can be used when starting a new project, as well as updating existing sites with changes to the ...
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Depend on built technology, or build your own [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to decide between using an existing eCommerce solution and building your own?
I am starting a ecomm business and my site idea is pretty similar in functionality to ...
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Using Microsoft Word/Outlook for content publishing to Wordpress [closed]
I am tasked with building an tool to allow users to publish to Wordpress from their PC using MS Word and Outlook. I know, completely defeat the purpose of having Wordpress, but the basic requirement ...
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Framework for developing front-end with back-end as REST
Currently I'm developing the back-end of a PHP application using Recess Framework. I'm almost done and I now need to do the front-end. I have many alternatives and I prefer a CMS. The alternatives in ...
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Creating a blog for software changes
I work for a small company where I maintain a number of project all at once. I would like to create a blog and note software changes/update so that I can keep track of things. Plus it will also serve ...
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Should I build my own CMS or rely on a pre-built one?
Related: As a beginning programmer, should I favor building my own libraries over using 3rd-party libraries?
As an intermediate to advanced level PHP web-developer and a young one at that ...
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What is the best way for an experienced developer to work on a WordPress blog
I'm beginning to work on my first WordPress blog, however I've noticed most tutorials just have you do modifications (such as theme changes, installing plugins) on the production site. This worries me ...
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Why do Wordpress & Drupal serialize the DB data?
I've recently went through manually editing some tables on a Wordpress website.
I've also had some experience with database internationalization so I know that serializing is not the best (IMO) ...
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When (and when not) to use Wordpress?
For the sake of simplicity, my question is focused specifically on Wordpress instead of focusing on all Content Management Systems including Joomla, Drupal, Concrete5, or you-name-it.
Wordpress is ...
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Work @ Java shop. Tasked to redo intranet. I only know PHP - CTO says use that; Ops Says no - we have JSP, use that - Thoughts? [closed]
So I work as a project manager and was given the opportunity to redo the intranet and Internet site... I'd love to , great addition to my resume. However.... I am not familiar with java nor JSP... I ...
